{"id":1231,"date":"2011-01-02T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.freeiz.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2016-08-09T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T12:06:00","slug":"linux-video-driver-version-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/2011\/01\/02\/linux-video-driver-version-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Video Driver Version Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Video Driver Version Command<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">dmesg | grep NVIDIA<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> sudo lspci -vvnn | grep 10de<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What I did from the command line is to find the packages for nvidia<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(<code>dpkg -l | grep nvidia<\/code>)<br \/>\nand then<br \/>\n<code>apt-get remove nvidia-173<\/code>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(or whatever package you get from the previous command).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The problem is that you will still have the nvidia modues listed in xorg.conf.<br \/>\nSo, I also \u00a0<code>mv \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf_backup<\/code><br \/>\nand rebooted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I landed in a graphical mode as usual, without the nvidia GL stuff,<br \/>\nbut then there are graphical tools to set it up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At this state, it&#8217;s safe to delete the xorg.conf backup you just created.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">####################<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nWhenever I try to start my computer from kernel version 3 (it boots fine with 2.6) Kubuntu stops booting <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">altogether.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>11.10 stops booting at &#8220;Checking battery state &#8230; [OK]&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I had to reinstall my graphics drivers.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<pre dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-173<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Driver Version Command dmesg | grep NVIDIA sudo lspci -vvnn | grep 10de &nbsp; What I did from the command line is to find the packages for nvidia (dpkg -l | grep nvidia) and then apt-get remove nvidia-173\u00a0 (or whatever package you get from the previous command). The problem is that you will still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,802,17,2,3,4,5,6,7,804,18,8,9,11,803,14,15],"tags":[427,446,464],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bgp-2","category-checkpoint","category-cisco-asa","category-cisco-mpls","category-cisco-routers","category-cisco-switch","category-firebrick","category-firewalsl","category-hot-standby","category-hp","category-iptables-linux","category-linux","category-microsoft","category-routing-protocol","category-vm","category-xrio","category-zyxel-router","tag-linux-driver","tag-linux-nvidia","tag-linux-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki-see.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}